Hour 2 - Knicks Thrive When KAT Has The Ball & Tiger Goes To Rehab
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How do the Knicks perform without Jalen Brunson?
It's the Boomer and Geo podcast from WFAN. All right, Boomer and Geo coming to you live from the Bill Ford Tough Studio on the Fan and CBS Sports Network. Want to join the show? 888-828-1019. That's a Red Pocket Mobile fan line brought to you by your new Ultimate Cell Carrier Red Pocket Mobile. We'll get more of those calls. Coming up in just a little bit, do you feel like there is a real problem between Jalen Brunson and Carl Anthony Towns? Dwight, that's a hard thing to say. I can only go by what I watched last night when Jalen Brunson wasn't on the court, and I was paying so much more attention to it because Jose Alvarado was out there, and the things that you were saying yesterday about how Jose goes right to Carl Anthony Towns.
Now, I don't know if that's by design because that's exactly what the coach wants him to do, or that's just something that the two of them have in common. They have a sync. whether it be him throwing to Carl Anthony Towns or him cutting off of Carl Anthony Towns last night, a couple times, a couple give-and-go's, and they were a pretty good place. And I like the way that they look together. There's no question about it, and there's no question also that when Jalen Brunson's on the basketball court, the basketball's going to be in his hands 75% of the time. Yeah, so a couple of things. Well, I wish this win last night would have happened against a better basketball team so we could have... Evaluated a little bit better because the Memphis Grizzlies are a mess.
They're one of these teams that is tanking to try to get up to the top of the draft. So it's really tough to evaluate. But the reason why I do think there is at least a little bit of a problem is because of how Carl Anthony Towns just looked out there. He looked so much more into it. We just saw him against Houston walk off the court. look nowhere at his teammates, not slap any fives after a great pass that led to points to go into the half and then sulked into halftime. And then, you know, last night he's running around. He's more inspired. He is happier than he talks about moving the basketball around in the postgame, which obviously they did a hell of a lot better without Jalen Brunson out there.
Now, this is not a criticism of Jalen Brunson. The Knicks need Jalen Brunson more than anybody else. He's the best. He's transformed this team.
What role does Carl Anthony Towns play in the Knicks' success?
But there is a lot of ball stopping with him. He is more of an isolation guy than we want to admit sometimes. And he has had to do that. He's had to be the hero. He's had to have these 40-point games in the playoffs for them to win. And I think the best version of the Knicks as presently constituted has him taking a little bit of a step back and getting the ball out of his hands and finding Carl Anthony Towns a hell of a lot more than he has this entire season. Here's one of the things that I take out of last night's game. Carl Anthony Towns didn't have any three-point shot attempts. So that meant that the game plan was get the ball into Carl Anthony Towns because there's really nobody that can cover him.
Nobody can stop him on the Memphis roster. It's completely different when they play teams that are better. And I'm telling you right now, there are two teams – And one of them may be a team that they see in the first round of the playoffs, and that is the Philadelphia 76ers. They're there getting healthy, and they're starting to win. The other team is the Boston Celtics. I mean, they're rolling. And Jason Tatum's now playing up to 30 minutes a game. So it's obvious that other teams within the conference are getting better. They're getting healthier. They're actually even playing better. I mean, who would have thought that Philadelphia would be 42-34 given everything that's gone on there the last five years?
Sure. I mean, they were dead in the water last year. It didn't look like they had much of a chance this year. See, but I'm not... I'm not worried about anybody really other than Boston and Detroit. I'm not. Now, maybe that's foolish. No, no, I'm not.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How do the Knicks perform without Jalen Brunson?
0:00–2:17
2
What role does Carl Anthony Towns play in the Knicks' success?
2:17–3:56
3
What are the implications of NASA's Artemis II launch?
3:56–5:52
4
How do Boomer and Gio debate the purpose of moon travel?
5:52–7:16
5
What updates are there on the Yankees and Mets games?
7:16–8:27
6
What happened in the Knicks' victory over the Grizzlies?
8:27–9:36
7
Why is Tiger Woods going to rehab overseas?
9:36–11:39
8
What is the controversy surrounding Kristi Noem's husband?
11:39–41:30
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